Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 5
Floss is slid gently between the teeth and curved around each tooth, because snapping it down hurts the gums.
Who acts: snapping · What happens: slid, curve, snap down, hurt · To what, where: Floss, tooth, toothbrush, gums
This is a sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snapping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Floss | floss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slid | aux:pass |
| 3 | slid | slid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 slid | advmod |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teeth | det |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slid | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 curved | cc |
| 9 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 slid | conj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 tooth | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 tooth | det |
| 12 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snapping | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 hurts | mark |
| 15 | snapping | snap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hurts | csubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 snapping | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 snapping | compound:prt |
| 18 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 curved | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gums | det |
| 20 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hurts | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slid | present · passive | Floss | between the teeth; gently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curve | participle | each tooth | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | |||||
| 3 | snap down | gerund | toothbrush | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurt | present | snapping | the gums | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gum=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:5.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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